Chapter 1531: The Destruction of the NATO Fleet

The U.S. military cannot intercept the Iranian-Syrian federal satellite that does not exist overhead. The only way to confirm the true and false warheads is to wait for the warheads to re-enter the atmosphere, and at the same time perform the final ballistic calculation.

Because the fake warhead is fake after all, it is mainly used to confuse the enemy's mid-range anti-missile capability, and it cannot follow the real warhead to re-enter the atmosphere.

At this moment, the distance of all the warheads to the target has been corrected to 200 kilometers from the intended attack position, and the vertical height has been kept at 90 kilometers.

At the same time, all the plane warning radars of the US fleet are turned off to ensure that there will be no mutual interference with the phased array radar.

Moreover, the water mist production system on the warship also began to cover the surroundings of the warship with layers of water mist, trying to use water mist to cover up the traces of its own ship.

This method can indeed make the pattern matching of the missile guidance system fail, but under the microwave scanning of the missile warhead, the water mist is like a fake, and it cannot affect the precise guidance of the missile warhead at all.

Microwave scanning detection is not directly interfered by other electrical signals, and it is difficult to counteract through electronic interference means. Large warships are huge, with a length between 150 and 350 meters. They are huge microwave radiation black bodies, which are easy to distinguish from the water surface. These are many Modal microwave remote sensing guidance creates conditions.

Microwaves may be used to analyze surface materials and temperatures, distinguishing water from ships. Surface tension and gravity wave amplitudes on the water surface can also be measured, potentially used to differentiate between the sea surface and ship wakes.

The microwave altimeter measures the height of the warhead, and the missile control system can compare the initial position of the target loaded at the time of reference launch according to the relative position with the target, and exclude other ships.

Although the U.S. military can use ship spray technology to cover ships with water mist, even so, it cannot simulate the amplitude of surface tension waves and gravity waves on the water surface, so that they can be detected by microwaves.

However, for the U.S. Navy, what follows is a big gamble, a big gamble on the upcoming fate.

The missile is less than two hundred kilometers away from the target, and the decoy bomb is still beside the real warhead, but the US military has no other choice.

Standard-3 interceptor bombs lifted off quickly, climbed vertically, and flew towards more than a hundred real and false targets outside the atmosphere.

Only one-fifth of the warheads are real. If you want to ensure real security, two to three Standard-3 interception of a warhead is the average number. If you want to completely shoot down the warheads that are about to fall in the sky, the US military needs to use More than five hundred standard -3 interceptor bombs.

Not to mention that the U.S. fleet does not have so many standard-3 interceptors,

Even if there were, it would be impossible to launch so many missiles into the air in one go.

The kinetic energy warhead of the standard-3 interceptor missile has a solid orbit control and attitude control propulsion system with a terminal orbit change capability of about 3 kilometers. Three kilometers of track.

The first and second stage rockets of the Standard-3 interceptor work for nine seconds and forty seconds respectively to accelerate the missile to Mach 6. The third stage rocket motor is started outside the atmosphere, using command correction and GPS guidance, and the kinetic energy is transferred through two ignitions. The warhead is accelerated to Mach twelve and aligned with the target. Due to the limited thrust of the rocket, the Standard-3 interceptor bomb can only reach a height of more than 100 kilometers by vertical climbing, and this climbing process takes at least one minute.

At this time, the NATO Indian Ocean Fleet has no time at all.

From the discovery of the decoy target to the launch of the missile, the entire process must not waste even a second.

Whether it is an interception regardless of cost or precise interception, a decision needs to be made in an instant.

In the shortest time, launch as many missiles as possible, but the U.S. military’s phased array radar is not zero-delay. It takes at least eight seconds for the entire process from locking a target to calculating and launching missiles.

Moreover, to intercept such a target, each warhead needs to perform target calculation.

Simultaneous tracking and simultaneous locking of high-threat targets are the basic functions of phased array radars, but for missile warheads with speeds up to Mach 25, such functions are just icing on the cake.

Because after the interceptor is launched, the phased array radar needs to continue to track the target. Because its lateral positioning error at a distance of 400 kilometers is as high as nearly 20 kilometers, it cannot meet the 3 kilometers requirement of the guidance correction of the intercepting warhead. It is necessary to correct the radar error based on the continuously obtained target data, thereby reducing the target trajectory prediction. radius.

Therefore, when the standard-3 interceptor bomb climbs out of the atmosphere, starts the third-stage rocket engine, jettisons the shroud, and searches for the target with an infrared detector, the height of the anti-ship ballistic missile warhead is already lower than 60 kilometers, and the standard-3 Interceptor warheads do not have the ability to fly at high speeds in the atmosphere.

When the U.S. military on the warship discovered that all the interceptor bombs could not even see the shadow of the target, everyone knew very well that the interception had failed.

At this time, even if they don't want to see it anymore, they still have to face the final interception efforts.

At this moment, the missile warhead has completely disappeared from the radar on the U.S. warship, but all the U.S. soldiers are holding their breath and waiting for the battle.

This is the last calm before the storm.

The U.S. soldiers in the combat operations center knew very well that the reason why the missile warhead disappeared from the radar was not because the missile was destroyed, but a natural phenomenon.

When anything enters the atmosphere at an extremely fast speed, the radar cannot detect the object when it rubs against the atmosphere violently.

Because the warhead will encounter a black barrier formed by plasma during the re-entry process, which not only hinders the warhead from searching for targets, but also protects the warhead from being detected by shipboard radar.

The density of the plasma must exceed 20% of the air density to be able to hinder radar detection. Due to the limited amount of plasma generated, the air density increases as the height decreases, and the black barrier is usually at a height of about 50 kilometers disappear.

Therefore, the main function of the terminal interception missiles of many countries is to intercept them at an altitude of 8-50 kilometers.

Moreover, the warhead warhead of the anti-ship ballistic missile at the base is also specially coated with a layer of ablative material to increase the amount of plasma generated to prolong the occurrence time of the black barrier and protect the warhead from being intercepted.

When the missile warhead dropped to only 40 kilometers from the horizontal altitude, the surface ships had not found the missile warhead.

At this moment, the speed of the missile is also maintained at Mach 12, and the efficiency drops, and the distance between all warheads and the attack target is also less than 60 kilometers.

The altitude of 40,000 meters is almost a blink of an eye for the missile, but at this moment, the missile has to start to slow down.

Only when the speed is less than Mach 10 can the radar system of the warhead be able to operate and lock the target.

It is necessary to slow down by yourself, otherwise the missile will not be able to see anything, it will just fall to the sea at an extremely fast speed.

At this moment, the missiles are all starting to slow down and turn at the angle of attack, and fly towards the target along an S-shaped trajectory. Vertically attacking anti-ship ballistic missiles are actually not very practical, at least the radar operation at high speed is a big problem.

However, the trajectory of the warhead of the ballistic missile is not level flight, and the angle between the travel and the position of the target is about 30 degrees to 40 degrees.

As soon as the speed drops, the warhead radar turns on to search for the target. After the ablative layer on the surface of the warhead is burnt out, the amount of surrounding plasma decreases rapidly, the black barrier disappears, and the radar returns to its normal working environment.

Just when the radar of the warhead returned to its normal working environment, the phased array radar system of the NATO Indian Ocean Fleet also found all the falling missiles.

At this time, there are no decoy bombs, and there are no other external factors affecting the interception. Whether it can be intercepted depends on who can be more skilled on both sides.

All Aegis systems in the NATO Indian Ocean Fleet began to calculate the trajectory of the warhead, loaded the launch data for the SM-2 missile, and the MK-41 launcher launched multiple interceptor bombs in succession.

Although according to the tracking data of the infrared system, the Auston system can start the standard-6 missile in advance and complete the laser gyro calibration and the cooling of the guidance head, etc., but the infrared system cannot determine the distance of the target, so it cannot detect the warhead as soon as possible. Launches the SM-6 missile.

In fact, whether it is a standard-2 or standard-6 interceptor bomb, it is difficult to intercept the falling warhead in time.

Taking Standard-2 as an example, the maximum speed is Mach 3, and the vertical climbing speed is Mach 2. It takes at least half a minute to climb to a height of 20,000 meters.

And in this half a minute, the anti-ship warhead that came down has adjusted its orientation, and everything before the vertical attack has been corrected.

Therefore, no matter what type of standard air defense missile the U.S. military launches, for the falling warheads, there is only time to intercept the warheads under the vertical trajectory.

And when the warhead is vertically downward, the speed is at least Mach 7, and the height will drop to 20,000 meters. At this height, it only takes eight to ten seconds for the warhead to hit the warship below.

The most important thing is that the speed of the warhead at this moment is more than twice the speed of the intercepting missile, and they are all penetrating through irregular ballistic changes. When it arrives, it is basically impossible to accurately intercept such a target.

However, the Standard-2 missile is controlled by an aerodynamic rudder. At an altitude of 20,000 meters, the air is thin, and it is difficult to perform high-overload maneuvers, which will also affect the interception efficiency.

Of course, standard missiles still have the possibility of interception, but the interception rate is relatively low. Both Ticonderoga-class cruisers and Burke-class destroyers have advanced fire control radars. With radio command guidance, they can attack at the speed of one anti-aircraft missile per second. to intercept.

But no matter how advanced the shield is, there will be sharper spears to restrain it.

In the night sky, the flames of the anti-aircraft missiles were extremely bright in the sky, but the missiles that fell from the night sky, and the missile warheads that were intercepted, did not even have a fifth of them.

Intercepting this kind of warhead with irregular trajectory changes and a speed exceeding Mach 7, combined with the air defense capabilities of the three US aircraft carrier battle groups, the success rate of effective interception is less than 20%.

If so many decoy bombs were not released during the interception in the middle, the probability of success in the overall interception is expected to reach 70%.

But even if 70% of the warheads were intercepted, the remaining 30% of the warheads would still be enough to kill the fleet.

The missile in the night sky, in the fierce friction with the air, fell towards the sea like a meteor with a long wake.

On a large number of U.S. warships, several U.S. sailors on the bridge watched the warheads falling from above their heads, and all jumped into the sea decisively.

From re-entering the atmosphere to radar detection and launching an attack, the whole process took less than forty seconds.

The whole process could have been shortened to even shorter intervals were it not for the need to adjust the ballistics.

However, even in forty seconds, the fleet had no time to make effective air defense measures to intercept the rapidly falling warheads in the sky.

Two Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers of more than 10,000 tons were hit by rapidly falling warheads at the same time.

The warhead weighing hundreds of kilograms, coupled with the speed exceeding Mach 7, and the killing effect brought about by the super impact force can be called terrifying.

Two Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers were hit at the bow and the middle of the bridge respectively. The one that hit the bow instantly shattered the entire front half of the warship, and the entire warship lost a third of its length. Most of the bridge is gone.

As for the center of the other ship that was hit, it could be seen that the entire warship seemed to be a whole piece of steel that was folded in the middle, and then the huge force directly tore the entire warship into two pieces from the middle.

When the two cruisers were killed, almost none of the other warships were spared. The missiles that fell one after another were all very precisely aimed at the targets that had been input into the computer.

The wreckage of the exploding warship was everywhere on the sea surface of the entire fleet, slowly sinking into the sea.

When the second wave of missiles also began to re-enter the atmosphere, not even two of the air defense ships in the entire fleet could be found.

The entire NATO Indian Ocean Fleet has less than a dozen warships. In addition to four frigates and four aircraft carriers, there are only a few auxiliary ships and the command ship La Salle.

The second wave of anti-ship ballistic missiles fell, and officially sounded the death knell for NATO's Indian Ocean fleet.

On the LaSalle, Gertney silently unbuttoned his discipline buckle, took off his military cap, and took out his naval command knife. However, the scene was over, and a missile fell directly, hitting the ship that was sailing at high speed. On the Lasalle, the small command ship was instantly engulfed by the explosion.

The powerful fleet carrying the hopes of the US military has ushered in its own end.

At this moment, among the entire fleet, the aircraft carrier was alone on the sea, facing more than twenty anti-ship ballistic missiles falling from the sky.

Only the stern air defense siren played a heartbroken song for the fleet to perish in the open sea. (to be continued)). If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote, your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users please read here. )